Metadata: Pipel, Kay: autobiography
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Women's Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Women's Library
- Postal address:
- 10 Portugal StreetLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2A 2HD
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Reference number:
- 7KPL
- Title:
- Pipel, Kay: autobiography
- Title (official language):
- Pipel, Kay: autobiography
- Creator/accumulator:
- Pilpel, Kay, fl 1930-2002, schoolgirl
- Date(s):
- 1996-12
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 0.5 a box (1 folder)
- Scope and content:
- The archive consists of a photocopy of a typescript autobiographical essay by Kay Pilpel entitled, 'Growing up in the 1930s' in which she describes her family background, the Jewish community in London from the 1890s onwards, and her daily life as a child and schoolgirl at Tottenham High School for Girls, including her experience of evacuation during the Second World War. The essay is illustrated with family trees and includes copies of family photographs.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Kay Pilpel (fl 1930s) grew up in the Jewish community of Stamford Hill, London, in the 1930s as the daughter of a lithographer. She attended Tottenham High School for Girls.
- Access points: locations:
- London
- Access points: persons/families:
- Pipel, Kay
- Subject terms:
- Memoirs
- World War II
- Access, restrictions:
- This collection is available for consultation. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=7KPL
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.
- Women's Library